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The Week In Games: Meat Boy Is Back
20.12.2020
A decade is a long time to wait for a sequel, but Super Meat Boy Forever is almost here after some delays and hiccups.Read more
FIFA 21 Has Some Good Looking Hair
20.12.2020
I don’t play sports games. I don’t even watch sports. But I’m always impressed by some good looking, next-gen hair. And the latest FIFA game on next-gen consoles like the Xbox Series X has some damn fine hair. Read more
Hivebusters Is A Great Gears DLC And A Fantastic Xbox Series X Showcase
18.12.2020
Hivebusters is a new single-player DLC campaign released for Gears 5. It’s also one of the best-looking games on Xbox Series X and feels like a full Gears game compressed into a bite-size experience that has me excited for the future of Gears of War. Read more
Control Comes To PS5 And Xbox Series X/S With Ray-Tracing In February
18.12.2020
Remedy Games paranormal office thriller Control will come to next-gen consoles digitally on February 2, followed by a full retail release on March 2, the studio announced on Twitter this morning. Read more
Call Of The Sea Is A Welcome Reprieve From All My Recent Video Game Murdering
17.12.2020
There have been a lot of harsh, dour video games this fall. Assassin’s Creed Valhalla centered on conquest and amputation. Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War featured history’s most cynical dirtbag. Cyberpunk 2077 is Cyberpunk 2077. If it’s all been a lot to stomach, consider a change of pace:...
Ubisoft Waits A Month To Start Selling XP Booster For Assassin's Creed Valhalla
17.12.2020
What do you do when you launch an Assassin’s Creed game, include the option for your customers to pay $10 to level up faster, draw all kinds of negative reactions—many of them suspicious, wary—and then launch a new Assassin’s Creed two years later? Launch with that controversial paid booster again?...
Four Generations Of Xbox Console Can Play The Same Game Together
15.12.2020
When we think of backwards compatibility we tend to only think of a game from an older system running on its replacement. But as this video shows, in the right circumstances, a console released in 2001 can play the same game at the same time as one released in 2020, as well as the two consoles...
GameStop's Last-Minute Console Rush Puts Workers At Risk
14.12.2020
A new allocation of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X / S bundles brought crowds of hopeful customers to physical GameStop locations over the weekend, according to a report by Bloomberg and corroboration by a Kotaku source. Staffing shortages and the threat of the ongoing covid-19 pandemic in...
The New Werewolf: The Apocalypse Action Game Isn't Looking Too Shabby
14.12.2020
French developer Cyanide has never really done a fast-paced action role-playing game, but you wouldn’t know it looking at the first gameplay footage of February’s Werewolf: The Apocalypse - Earthblood. It’s as brutal as it is furry. Read more
The Week In Games: Bust Some Hives In Gears 5
13.12.2020
This week, Gears 5 gets its first story DLC in the form of Hivebusters, a new 3-hours campaign starring some of the characters from the game’s online Hivebuster co-op mode. Read more
So About That Batshit Ending To Assassin's Creed Valhalla
11.12.2020
Between the rideable wolves, anime references, and random American baseball players, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla is full of surprises. But the biggest surprise, without question, comes at the end. Two of us (staff writer Ari Notis and weekend editor Zack Zweizen, who also reviewed the game...
V létě přiletí Microsoft Flight Simulator na Xbox Series X/S
11.12.2020
V létě přiletí Microsoft Flight Simulator na Xbox Series X/S
11.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 Is Looking Rough On PS4 And Xbox One At The Moment
10.12.2020
I’ve spent an hour playing Cyberpunk 2077 on Xbox One, and it hasn’t been pretty. Sometimes it’s been straight up ugly. Based on screenshots and footage other people are sharing online, I’m not alone.Read more
Microsoft's 2021 Release Calendar Doesn’t Include Many First-Party Games
9.12.2020
A month into the launch of the Xbox Series X/S, Microsoft has given a rundown of what people can expect to play on the new machines in 2021. There are a lot of games, but very few of them are from Microsoft’s own studios.Read more
Some People Are Playing Cyberpunk 2077 A Day Early On Xbox By Switching Time Zones
9.12.2020
Cyberpunk 2077 doesn’t officially release until 12:01 a.m. on December 10, but Xbox owners are already playing the game by manipulating their console’s time and location data.Read more
'Free' Gears 5 Expansion Highlights Growing Divide For Game Pass Subscribers
9.12.2020
Gears 5 is getting a new campaign expansion next week. It’ll be available at no extra cost for members of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, a $15-monthly subscription. Everyone else will have to pay up. It’s just one more perk suggesting a growing gulf between the entry-level and premium tiers...
A Lot Happened In Destiny Today
9.12.2020
New content, upgrades for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, and new information about long-awaited features coming in future seasons: Destiny 2 had a big day today, so let’s break it all down.Read more
Halo Infinite Isn't Coming Out Until Fall 2021 At The Earliest
9.12.2020
343 Studios just announced that Halo Infinite—a game that was supposed to launch alongside the Xbox Series X last month—now won’t be released until at least Fall 2021.Read more
Yakuza: Like A Dragon: The Kotaku Review
9.12.2020
After an exhausting run of seven main games, some spinoffs and the sandwiched-but-excellent Judgment, the Yakuza series entered a new era in 2020 with the release of Like a Dragon, which is trying to be something completely new, only it’s also not.Read more